Speaking Volumes Series

Indie Lit Publishers Let Gay and Lesbian Voices Shine at the LGBT Community Center

June 26th at 7pm

• WILLIAM STERLING WALKER's fiction has appeared in Modern Words, Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, Brooklyn Review, and The Best American Gay Fiction 2. His memoir "January 18, 1989" was included in Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming-Out Stories. His criticism has appeared in Lambda Book Report and LGNY. Presented by Patrick Merla, Editor of The James White Review.
  
  
• G. WINSTON JAMES is a Jamaican-born poet and short fiction writer. His prose and essays are featured in Callaloo, Fighting Words: Personal Essays by Black Gay Men, The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica, His 2: Brilliant New Fiction by Gay Writers, Shade: An Anthology of Short Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent, and Waves: An Anthology of New Gay Fiction. His first collection of poetry, Lyric: Poems Along A Broken Road was a finalist publication in the 1999 Lambda Literary Awards competition for poetry. Presented by Lisa Moore, Publisher/Editor of Red Bone Press.
  
  
• CHERYL CLARKE's books of poetry include Experimental Love, which was nominated for a 1994 Lambda Literary Award, Humid Pitch, Living as a Lesbian, and Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including The Black Scholar, The Kenyon Review, Belles Lettres, The World in Us: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Poetry, and Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader. Clarke is also the Director of the Office of Diverse Community Affairs and Lesbian-Gay Concerns at Rutgers University. Presented by Charles Flowers, Editor/Publisher, Bloom.
  
  

CLMP partners with New York cultural institutions El Museo Del Barrio and The Studio Museum of Harlem to co-present writers and their editors in a new way toward demystifying the editorial and publishing process while providing access to the literary riches of the specific cultural communities. Three leading indie lit editors will introduce one of their writers reading a selection from a work being published, speaking about their collaborative work with the writer. The audience will then be invited to participate in a discussion amongst the editors and writers about the state of literature and publishing within the community. Check the website for future additional programs in this series.

Literary Voices from the World of Latin American Independent Publishing presented with El Museo del Barrio

Saturday, February 8, 2003
2-4pm at El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
New York, NY

• GRACIELA LIMÓN is the Mexican American critically-acclaimed and award-winning author of five novels: Erased Faces, The Day of the Moon, Song of the Hummingbird, The Memories of Ana Calderón, and In Search of Bernabé which was awarded the 1994 American Book Award, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times' Art Sydenburg First Novel Award and was named a "Notable Book of the Year" in 1993 by The New York Times Book Review. Introduced by Nicolas Kánellos of ARTE PÚBLICO PRESS, the largest and most accomplished publisher of U.S. Hispanic Literature.
  
  
• PABLO MEDINA is a celebrated Cuban-born American poet, novelist and essayist whose works include the novels The Return of Felix Nogara and The Marks of Birth, the poetry collections The Floating Island and Arching into the Afterlife and the essay collection Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood. Introduced by Dennis Maloney of WHITE PINE PRESS, at the forefront of bringing the rich diversity of world literature to English speaking readers.
  
  
• MARTA LÓPEZ-LUACES is a Spanish-American author, translator, editor and scholar of remarkable range, publishing the books of poetry El exilio y odio: Hate and Exile, and Distancias y Destierros, a book of short stories entitled La Virgen de la Noche: The Virgin of the Night, and criticism appearing in international journals. Introduced by Alexandra VanDerKamp, of the bilingual journal, TERRA INCOGNITA, a vessel for exploring and celebrating the variety of cultures in which English and/or Spanish are spoken.
  
  Moderated by Jeffrey Lependorf, Executive Director of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.

Literary Voices from the World of African American Independent Publishing presented with The Studio Museum of Harlem

Monday March 24, 2003 at 7pm
The Studio Museum of Harlem, Main Gallery
144 West 125th Street
between Lenox and Adam Clayton Powell (7th) Avenues
New York, NY

• CARL HANCOCK RUX, selected by The New York Times Magazine as "One of Thirty Artists Under the Age of Thirty Most Likely to Influence Culture Over the Next Thirty Years" and featured on the cover of The Village Voice as one of "Eight Writers on the Verge of Impacting The Literary Landscape," he crosses the disciplines of poetry, music, dance and theater to achieve what the New York Post calls a “dizzying oral artistry,” introduced by Steve Cannon of the pan-disciplinary publisher, A Gathering of the Tribes:
  
  
• DEBORAH DRISANA JACK, a poet “at the articulate edge” of the Caribbean cultural vanguard, with work bravely and brazenly intent on reconciling trans-cultural existence and memory while constructing energetic new mythologies, introduced by Jacqueline Bishop of the international Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters.
  
  
• MIRLANDE JEAN-GILLES, a fresh voice ascending into acclaim, she is the recent recipient of the Toni Cade Bambara Award for Fiction, The Frederick Douglas Fellowship for Young African American Writers and the Bronx Writer’s Center’s Van Lier Fellowship, introduced by Carolyn Butts of African Voices: a soulful collection of Art and Literature
  
  Moderated by Jeffrey Lependorf, Executive Director of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.

The Speaking Volumes series is made possible through a generous grant from the New York Community Trust and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

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